Category Archives: Industry Watch
.COM and .NET wholesale price goes up tomorrow, easyDNS doesn't.
Verisign is increasing the wholesale cost of .COM and .NET domains by 48 cents for .COM domains and 42 cents for .NET. easyDNS will absorbing the additional wholesale costs into existing pricing.
Whois Privacy brings a lawsuit down on Registrar
Following on our explanation of why we do not offer whois masking here at easyDNS, we note tonight that Registrar Namecheap has been sued "over cybersquatting claims for a domain name registered under the NameCheap whois privacy services". As we outlined in our original article: Whoever is listed as the Registrant in the domain's whois [...]
DNS cache poisoning exploit released
Hi There, There is a new DNS Cache poisoning disclosure that has been inadvertently leaked before it was scheduled to be released by Dan Kaminsky (IOActive). This is a very serious flaw in the DNS protocol that impacts caching resolvers, like the resolvers hosted at your service provider that help your workstation resolve IP addresses [...]
.ME Top Level Domain launch indicative of new TLD rollouts
We've gotten a few invitations to apply to be a .ME top-level domain registrar, to which we assigned no urgency after we took a straw poll internally and found that pretty well zero of our customers were asking for it. Today, Techcrunch reports that the .ME landrush, at least through one large operator, had degraded [...]
Please note: ORDB anti-spam list no longer operational…
A number of our customers who maintain their own mailservers have called reporting issues with the delivery of their email in the last 24 hours. If you are experiencing something similar, please ensure that you are not using the ORDB anti-spam list. The ORDB anti-spam list was shut down in December 2006, and in an [...]
Enhanced DNS resolution using OpenDNS
OpenDNS is an enhanced DNS resolver open to the public (as of today) and free to use. It contains a number of enhancements such as typo correction and phishing protection. It is also fully configurable for the end users, so individual features can be turned off at the users' discretion. I've also posted a comment [...]
China Top Level Domain news
There has been a remarkable lack of chatter today around domain policy circles, given the rather stunning announcement out of china that starting tomorrow, China will be launching its own Top Level Domain roots for the .COM, .NET TLDs so that "[Chinese] Internet users don't have to surf the Web via the servers under the [...]
Yahoo and AOL's paid email delivery system
An interesting turn of events surfaced over the weekend with AOL and Yahoo's announced plans to charge a fraction of a cent for "preferred delivery" of email. Both companies will still accept unpaid email, but by paying the charges, senders will be able to bypass inbound spam filters and have their mail delivered directly to [...]
Domain suffixes not an endangered species
I've seen several references to the firm that wants to get rid of net suffixes over the weekend, and at the risk of sounding like a stuffy curmudgeon I have to state my suspicion that it is at least partially attributable to a "slow technews weekend" after the US Thanksgiving. From monday morning's vantage point [...]
Domain name dispute in Canadian House of Commons
It'll be interesting to see what comes of the domain name dispute debate which took place in the House of Commons over same-sex marriage opponents who registered MP's names as domains and setup websites on them to drum up support for their cause. As Michael Geist comments, the actions are nebulous and under the current [...]